Re: VALUE and TO implementation

In article <2024Aug5.171800@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:

On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 12:26:26 +0000, dxf wrote:

Don't know but to this day Mitch Bradley (ANS, Open Firmware) still uses
parsing words to interpret hex, double, float numbers.

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"de gustibus non disputandum est."
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He also uses state-smart words.

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Show me a Forther *without* strong opinions *and* unfathomable
inconsistencies.

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In this case it's actually consistent: Mitch Bradley finds the
pitfalls of STATE-smart words acceptable, so he uses such words to
deal with various literals.
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I, OTOH, don't consider them to be acceptable, so I prefer
recognizers, like the standard already has for words, single and
double integer numbers, and FP numbers.

Actually there is not much difference between
  DX ABCD
and
  0x ABCD
and
  0xABCD
or
  $ABCD

As long as you make 0x/$  a PREFIX and recognize that
it is inevitable that numbers are state-smart.
Making the expression into a single word solves much.
The whole recognizer thing becomes superfluous at the expense
of 5 words in INTERPRET.

- anton

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